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Spam clogging Amazon's Kindle self-publishing

by berberich on 6/16/11, 9:19 PM with 1 comments

  • by ChuckMcM on 6/16/11, 10:05 PM

    I noticed early on a preponderence of folks download a book that is out of copyright from books.google.com and then upload it as a self-published work for $0.99 - $4.99 on the Kindle store. Same scan flaws as the Google books result, everything.

    Not illegal (the book is out of copyright) but really annoying.